(1) YA Edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond. This piercing poetry collection's sixty-four pieces (many previously published) in a variety of forms mourn loss, celebrate survival, and explore breaking and remaking self and home. The poets--immigrants and refugees themselves, or from immigrant households--tackle topics including racism, displacement, assimilation, and resilience. The contributors all offer timely, culturally specific frames for the universal struggle of growing into oneself. Appended with brief poet biographies. Ind.

Reviewer: Anastasia M. Collins | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2019

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Rod Brown. The author recalls her father telling the story of how her famous grandfather, the singer Paul Robeson (1898–1976), "stopped a war." In 1938, his singing for the soldiers on the front lines of Teruel temporarily halted the Spanish Civil War ("The battlefield grew silent. No shots were fired"). The story's humanity is underscored with paintings by a sure hand.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) YA Graves's prose recounting of the Trojan War and the fall of this ancient city is back in print in a handsome volume with a new introduction by Dan-el Padilla Peralta. With research into Homer and "various other Greek and Latin authors," Graves's narrative is nevertheless free-flowing and not burdened by the often-ponderous language of strict translations of ancient accounts.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Ed Young. The author's note says, "'Yugen' is a Japanese term for the 'subtle and profound.'" It's also the nickname of Eugene, who longs for his Japanese mother whom he's now lost for the second time in his young life. In haunting first-person haiku (narrated by the boy) and mysterious charcoal sketches on textured backgrounds, the creators of this unusual book provide a unique experience for deep readers of various ages.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(4) K-3 Nagara uses a photograph of his own wedding, bride and groom kneeling before a row of riot police, as the springboard for a broader discussion on civil disobedience. Delving into campaigns in history--such as boycotts to get fair wages for farmworkers and blockades to stop oil drilling on Indigenous People's land--the personable, if rather heavy-handed, storytelling-style text is illustrated with fiery graphic art.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(3) K-3 Tailor Uncle Flores used to love bright colors but now makes only gray overalls for the local environment-ruining factory. When they cut his job, Flores's nephew, Edinho, encourages him to make colorful curtains; soon, the townspeople also paint their houses and start desiring brighter clothes again. Intricate collages hint at the town's transformation. An afterword illuminates conditions in contemporary Brazil and the universality of the issues.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt